Redirect to 404error page YET return 404 Status Code

[Pat Carden]

I'm trying to provide a better user experience by redirecting my users to a
"Page Not Found" page, using a Custom Errors directive in Web.Config.

The problem is I need to return a 404 error code to the browser (or spider)
before redirecting. Now, the system is reporting a status code of 302 on
the original page and a 200 status code on the error page.

I would like to use Google Sitemaps and they require this, plus I have a
linkchecking service that is unable to detect the redirect.

Can someone tell me how to accomplish this? I tried with the following code
in the "Page Not Found" page, but it didn't yield the desired result.

Thanks a lot!

Pat

 

[Jason Kester]

Response.StatusCode = 404;


Jason Kester
Expat Software Consulting Services
http://www.expatsoftware.com/

 

[Patrick.O.Ige]

Pat where is the code you said you tried?
Patrick

 

[Pat Carden]

In the PageNotFound page

I used

Response.StatusCode = 404

Doesn't seem to have the desired effect.

Pat

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

Have you tried using :

<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="~/error.aspx">
<error statusCode="404" redirect="~/PageNotFound.aspx" />
</customErrors>

in your web.config ?

 

[Pat Carden]

Yes that's what I'm using but it return a status code 302 instead of a 404
and then a 200 when it hits the error page.

 

[Patrick.O.Ige]

Pat but if it returned status code 302 did it redirect you to the page you
specified?
Maybe check your IIS settings and see.
Patrick

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

Could that be because the page is found and you're being redirected ?

;-)

10.3.3 302 Found :
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html